IC 3859
IC 3859
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3859 as it looked roughly 199 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 4778Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartNGC 4761Spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 4764Elliptical5.9 million ly
apartNGC 4780AGalaxy6.0 million ly
apartNGC 4703Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 4757Lenticular9.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4761Spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 4764Elliptical5.9 million ly
apartNGC 4780AGalaxy6.0 million ly
apartNGC 4703Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 4757Lenticular9.5 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).